Indiana University confirmed its leadership in high performance, data-intensive computing by unveiling Big Red II, a powerful new supercomputer with a processing speed of one thousand trillion floating-point operations per second (one petaFLOPS).

Indiana University's new supercomputer is expected to further advance international collaborations reliant on big data research at a time when the globalization of education, science and research is omnipresent.

Indiana University shares its expertise in advanced networking with the launch of a new lecture series for state business and industry leaders. Hosted by IU's Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) and Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC), the IU NetTalk Series will kick off at 6 p.m. on May 7 in the ICTC building on the IUPUI campus.

IEEE Cluster 2013 conference organizers are seeking input from the high performance computing community, in an effort to make the "Clusters and Cyberinfrastructure Strategy" event as informative as possible. Hosted by Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute, Cluster 2013 will take place September 23-27, 2013, at the Hilton Hotel in Indianapolis.

The Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) at Indiana University is hosting its first single-controller vendor Software-Defined Networking (SDN) Lab PlugFest this Feb. 19-21 in Indianapolis. The event will let SDN Lab members test the interoperability of their products with Big Switch Networks' commercial controller, the Big Network Controller. Equipment from SDN switch vendors Dell, Extreme Networks, HP, IBM and NEC as well as SDN testing manufacturers Ixia and Spirent will be tested at the event. Big Switch Networks is a founding member of the SDN Lab.

Vital research collaborations involving China, Europe and the United States will be safeguarded through the first major agreement among partners running the two main high-speed research and education (R&E) Internet routes across Asia, Europe and North America.

The Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) has announced that Steve Wallace will step into the role of acting executive director. Wallace succeeds Matt Davy, who is transitioning to a new position in the private sector.

Indiana University's IT Communications Office recently received several awards from the Chicago chapter of the Society for Technical Communication (STC). The awards are part of the STC's 2012 Technical Communications Competition.

Network architects from a range of Fortune 500 companies will converge on the Indiana Center for Network Translational Research and Education (InCNTRE) on Wednesday, January 23, to take part in a new user group promoting OpenFlow and other software-defined networking (SDN) technologies. The newly formed InCNTRE SDN User Group (ISUG) will bring together business leaders from insurance, finance, travel and healthcare who are investigating SDN technologies and the impact they may have on their networks.

The National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS) is expanding its reach by adding tools, services and partners to help biological research communities make important new scientific discoveries. Today (January 14), in conjunction with its participation in the Plant and Animal Genome Conference (PAG XXI), NCGAS announced three initiatives to accelerate US public and private sector research and development in biology and biomedical research.

A recent networking breakthrough from IU researchers, in collaboration with Orange Silicon Valley and DataDirect Networks, showed that data sharing can be faster and more efficient over wide area networks (WAN). The team performed the world's first demonstration of RDMA (Remote Direct Memory Access) over Converged Ethernet (RoCE) across a wide area network using the Lustre file system.

Indiana University has been selected as the new home for the US Desk Editor of the online publication International Science Grid this Week (iSGTW: isgtw.org), supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation.

Indiana University today announced the successor to its internationally recognized Data Capacitor research data storage platform. The new system, called Data Capacitor II (DCII), is a five petabyte storage resource engineered to provide scientific researchers with high performance access to a robust storage facility. DCII will be used for a range of applications, including management of massive research data sets, high-scale data analysis, genomic sequencing and computational visualization.

Indiana University networking experts were recently recognized by Internet2 for their efforts to enhance broadband connectivity and support advanced services and cloud applications across the United States. Their efforts will help provide advanced networking features for more than 200,000 of the country's community anchor institutions, including libraries, hospitals, K-12 schools, community colleges and public safety organizations.

IU will replace its current Data Capacitor with Data Capacitor II, a high-speed, high-capacity storage facility for very large data sets. With five petabytes of storage, Data Capacitor II will support big data applications used in computational research.

Indiana University will display its leadership in high performance computing and networking technologies at the annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, also known as SC12 (Supercomputing 2012). This year's conference takes place from November 10 to 16 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Data vital to understanding global climate change will benefit from more efficient and secure processing, thanks to a new tool created by members of Indiana University's Research Technologies Systems.

Leaders from the China Education and Research Network (CERNET), IU, Internet2, and the Chinese government met Thursday, June 21, at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China to demonstrate unique applications now possible over a new10Gbps internet link between the education and research networks of the US and China.

The National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Energy have renewed funding for the Open Science Grid project, providing $27 million from 2012 to 2016. Indiana University will receive $3.82 million of the award to continue running OSG's Operations Center, highlighting IU's noted expertise in grid computing and ability to deliver a reliable, secure, easy-to-use environment.

Indiana University received a $492,588 National Science Foundation grant to help scientists study rising sea levels and the impact of storm surge on coastal communities. Through this grant, IU will improve the performance of oceanic computer models, which scientists use to protect millions of people living near coasts around the world.

Networking giant Cisco is the latest company to join InCNTRE's Software-Defined Networking Interoperability Lab, the world's only neutral, third-party testing lab for SDN.

Online file sharing and storage just got easier and more secure at Indiana University. The university is working with cloud content management service Box.com to provide students, faculty, and staff with a secure, web-based file storage and collaboration platform.

Senior, higher education executives announced today that they will use the nation's fastest, coast-to-coast network to implement new technologies that support scientific "Big Data" and cloud applications to drive innovation in global collaborative research. The intent is to strengthen the nation's position as a global leader in research and education for decades to come, and at the same time help control higher education costs.

Indiana is the first state to launch a high-speed 100-gigabits-per-second (Gbps) network link dedicated to research and education. The new network, named Monon100, is 10 times faster than the current network link. With it, scientists and medical researchers will be able to rapidly share the massive amounts of data created by modern digital instruments such as gene sequencers, powerful microscopes or the Large Hadron Collider.

Two new grants to Indiana University from the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) will provide training for network administrators and a service desk for problem reporting and project coordination. Both initiatives will support GENI, a nationwide experimental network research infrastructure sponsored by the National Science Foundation.

GlobalNOC, the Global Research Network Operations Center at Indiana University, will provide premier network coordination and engineering services for the Pennsylvania Research and Education Network, or PennREN, a fiber optic cable network that will extend over 1,600 miles through 39 Pennsylvania counties.

Indiana University has again been chosen by the National Science Foundation's GENI project to lead applied research for faster and cheaper computer networks. Four new grants totaling $2.3 million further advance the state's national stature in operating and researching high-speed computer networks.

An Indiana University team recently set out to address a major concern of data-intensive research: How can we move massive amounts of data to supercomputing facilities for analysis? The team demonstrated data transfer over an experimental 100 Gigabits per second (Gbps) network—taking advantage of a link ten times faster than most in use today.

The board of directors of OpenSFS, the Lustre community group in North America, has voted to fund Indiana University (IU) to develop features that will enhance the usability of the Lustre file system across wide area networks (WANs). OpenSFS is a non-profit technical organization dedicated to the promotion and development of Lustre in high performance computing (HPC) environments.

Indiana University during SC11 this year will demonstrate the many ways its information technology experts have advanced the future of high performance computing. The annual International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis is the largest event of its kind, bringing together leading scientists and researchers from around the globe, as well as representatives from top universities, companies, and organizations in the supercomputing field. This year the event, SC11, takes place Nov. 12-18 in Seattle, Wash.

Leaders from Indiana University, Internet2, and the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) met Friday, Nov. 4, at Georgetown University to celebrate their cooperative partnership linking the education and research networks of the United States and China.

The Midwest OpenFlow Crossroads Initiative (MOXI) will provide a new OpenFlow based experimental network infrastructure to CIC member institutions in the Midwest. MOXI is a partnership of the Indiana University Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) and the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), a consortium of the top-tier research universities of the Big Ten Athletic Conference and the University of Chicago.

The Indiana University GlobalNOC and partners will complete a high performance research network link between the U.S. and China with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project will link the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) with Internet2 and U.S. research and education networks, allowing researchers and educators in both the U.S. and China to more easily collaborate and share research data. The award is the latest in IU's series of large-scale international networking grants received within the past decade. The IU GlobalNOC currently leads international networks such as TransPAC3 to Asia and America Connects to Europe (ACE).

Indiana University and Penguin Computing today (Nov. 2) announced a partnership to offer U.S. researchers access to powerful shared computing resources in a secure environment. This type of service -- also known as on-demand or cloud computing -- lets individuals and organizations share the resources of large computing systems without individually purchasing and maintaining the costly equipment.

High-speed Internet connectivity among 63 Indiana universities and colleges will be celebrated tomorrow (Nov. 3) when officials gather to recognize the approaching completion of a $35.8 million infrastructure project connecting 21 Ivy Tech Community College campuses to Indiana's I-Light network.

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Indiana University a $1.5-million grant to establish the National Center for Genome Analysis Support (NCGAS). Genome analysis can help scientists discover new medicines, improve crops, understand diseases, and create personalized treatments for various illnesses.

The Indiana University GlobalNOC and partners will complete a high performance research network link between the U.S. and China with a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The project will link the China Education and Research Network (CERNET) with Internet2 and US research and education networks, allowing researchers and educators in both the U.S. and China to more easily collaborate and share research data.

Indiana University's Stephen Simms has been elected to the Community Representative board seat for OpenSFS. Simms is the Data Capacitor project lead and manager of the High Performance File Systems group. He spearheads IU's development of the Lustre file system, and is the university's representative to OpenSFS. OpenSFS is a technical organization that promotes collaboration among institutions using open source scalable file systems in high performance computing environments.

Indiana University's Summer of Networking internship program, which provides students with hands-on, practical training from the university's acclaimed network engineering staff, has received a two-year, $270,595 grant from the National Science Foundation. The grant will enable IU to expand the program and continue focusing on preparing students for the high-tech job market.

Kuali Coeus, Indiana University's new, comprehensive grant administration system designed to better assist faculty researchers at every stage of the grant-making process, became fully operational over the weekend (July 23-24).

A partnership of 16 institutions, including Indiana University, today (July 25) announced the Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE). XSEDE will be the most advanced, powerful and robust collection of integrated advanced digital resources and services in the world.

Citrix Systems and Indiana University have announced that IU has chosen Citrix as a preferred partner in helping the university deliver and support virtual technologies for its approximately 100,000 students, faculty and staff. The partnership effectively creates a "Personal Cloud" where users can access applications and data as an on-demand service — anytime, anywhere, and on any PC, Mac, tablet or smart phone.

Researchers from Indiana University's Center for Applied Cybersecurity Research and Pervasive Technology Institute have authored an innovative roadmap for organizations to utilize the InCommon Federation to link U.S. education and research communities for easier and more efficient collaboration and access to shared online resources.

The hot technology buzzword, "cloud," describes Internet-accessible infrastructure -- such as data storage and computing hardware -- that is hidden from users. Top cloud computing researchers and industry leaders from around the globe gathered in Indianapolis recently to discuss the latest research and the future of this powerful emerging discipline. The IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) ran from Nov. 30-Dec. 3 at University Place Conference Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI). This year's hosts were the Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University and the IU School of Informatics and Computing.

A paper co-authored by Dr. Andrew Lumsdaine, director of the Open Systems Lab (OSL) at the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, and former OSL researchers Torsten Hoefler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Timo Schneider (University of Technology Chemnitz) has received Supercomputing 2010's Best Paper accolade. As the premier annual international supercomputing conference, Supercomputing 2010 drew thousands of participants from all over the world.

Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University today announced the availability of "Cyberinfrastructure Software Sustainability and Reusability," a report from a National Science Foundation (NSF)-sponsored workshop. The NSF strategy for 21st-century innovation depends on the creation and maintenance of scientific and engineering software. In March 2009, Indiana University hosted an NSF-funded workshop to examine related software issues.

Top cloud computing researchers and industry leaders from around the globe are gathering in Indianapolis this week to discuss the latest research and the future of this powerful emerging discipline. The IEEE 2nd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2010) will run from Tuesday, Nov. 30 through Friday, Dec. 3 at University Place Conference Center at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI).

For those who attended last week's Supercomputing 2010 (SC10) conference in New Orleans, it was impossible to miss the enormous illuminated globe on the exhibit floor. Hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the crowd-pleasing Science on a Sphere exhibit simulated real weather and climate events in spectacular, high-definition clarity.

Indiana University and four research technology partners have succeeded in using the Lustre file system over a wide area network (WAN), saturating the world's first commercial 100 gigabit link.

The Pervasive Technology Institute at Indiana University has joined OpenSFS, a technical organization that promotes collaboration among institutions using open source scalable file systems such as Lustre. OpenSFS is a nonprofit corporation formed in 2010 by Cray Inc., DataDirect Networks Inc., Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory. OpenSFS is committed to acknowledging and addressing system needs in ways that bring together the Lustre community.

Join Indiana University in imagining the supercomputing hardware, data management, and applications of tomorrow at SC10 in New Orleans, November 13-19. "Look to the Future of High Performance Computing," hosted by Pervasive Technology Institute (PTI) at Indiana University, features talks and demonstrations by top computational scientists exploring timely questions.

Leaders of the Data Capacitor project team at Indiana University's Pervasive Technology Institute have launched a partnership with technology startup Whamcloud to improve upon IU's pioneering work in the use of Lustre over Wide Area Networks.

Chris Robb has been promoted to the position of director of network operations and engineering for Internet2 where he has been network operations manager since 2008 and responsible for the day-to-day operations of the nationwide Internet2 Network infrastructure. As an assigned staff member from the Indiana University Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC), Robb will continue to be located in Bloomington, Indiana.

Indiana University is collaborating with a group of national research and education networking organizations to construct the United States Unified Community Anchor Network (U.S. UCAN), an advanced 100 gigabit-per-second national network backbone that will link regional and state research and education networks across the nation -- including Indiana's I-Light. Indiana University, Internet2, National LambdaRail (NLR), and the Northern Tier Network Consortium (NTNC) will collaborate with technology companies Ciena, Cisco, Infinera, and Juniper Networks to link the networks, as well as other projects funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Indiana University is collaborating with a group of national research and education networking organizations to construct the United States Unified Community Anchor Network (U.S. UCAN), an advanced 100 gigabit-per-second national network backbone that will link regional and state research and education networks across the nation -- including Indiana's I-Light.

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today (July 2) awarded more than $62.5 million in federal stimulus funding through its Broadband Technology Opportunities Program (BTOP) to a group of national research and education networking organizations including Indiana University, Internet2 (also known as University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development), National LambdaRail (NLR), and the Northern Tier Network Consortium.

The Indiana University Global Research Network Operations Center (GlobalNOC) has launched a new service to help research and education (R&E) communities across the country enhance their advanced network management systems.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie will preside over the groundbreaking ceremony for IU Bloomington's new Cyberinfrastructure Building at 11a.m. Thursday (April 29). The ceremony will take place at 10th Street and the Indiana State Road 45/46 Bypass.

IU Vice President for Information Technology and CIO Brad Wheeler has appointed Jon-Paul Herron director of IU Global Research Network Operations Center (GRNOC) Engineering, where he will oversee IU's prestigious national services in research and education networking operations and planning. Herron has been at Indiana University for nearly 10 years.

Researchers from the Pervasive Technology Institute Digital Science Center at Indiana University have begun work on an innovative project that will use cloud computing techniques to support life science research. The project is supported by a $1.5 million grant award from the National Institutes of Health and takes advantage of an earlier National Science Foundation grant to IU to construct an experimental supercomputing network called FutureGrid.

A web tool developed by Indiana University is helping to monitor and assure the health of the two largest computational grids that support the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's most powerful particle accelerator. The LHC, operated by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), is making headlines this week as it resumes operation after an electrical malfunction caused it to cease operation in September 2008.

Indiana University has been chosen by the National Science Foundation to help develop the Internet of the future. Under the grant, IU will explore the operation and deployment of the NSF-sponsored infrastructure for network research known as GENI (Global Environment for Network Innovations). This award follows an earlier NSF grant to IU to construct an experimental supercomputing network called FutureGrid, which will enable new approaches to scientific research.

As computer network experiments increase in complexity and size, it has become increasingly difficult to fully understand the circumstances under which a network experiment was run, particularly when it comes time to reproduce the results. A collaborative team from Indiana University will lead the effort to provide essential tools related to the history and authenticity of an experiment's data set (called "provenance") for the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) computer network.

The future of scientific computing will be developed with the leadership of Indiana University and nine national and international partners as part of a $15 million project largely supported by a $10.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The award will be used to establish FutureGrid—one of only two experimental systems in the NSF Track 2 program that funds the most powerful, next-generation scientific supercomputers in the nation.

Advanced computing resources and scientific computing applications provided by Indiana University are now exploiting the potential of a powerful new electron microscope that may help scientists make breakthroughs in the study of viruses and other life science applications. Thanks to the IU Research Technologies High Performance Applications Group and IU's supercomputers, complex images created by the microscope can be turned into useful composite images that scientists can study.

Facilitating greater levels of collaboration between scientists and medical researchers in Europe and the U.S. is the goal of an announcement by information technology leaders from Technische Universität Dresden (TUD), Germany and Indiana University. The formal agreement of friendship and cooperation between the two universities will impact joint research in high performance computing and informatics.

Butler University and University of Indianapolis recently joined the I-Light network, Indiana's high-speed statewide fiber optic network for higher education. Marian College is slated to connect to I-Light within the next two weeks. I-Light provides Indiana colleges and universities digital communications at least 20 times faster than a typical home Internet connection.

Indiana University's Data Capacitor, designed to store and manipulate massive data sets and based on the Lustre filesystem, is being used across the wide area network of the TeraGrid to enable projects ranging from investigating planetary origins to measuring the melting polar icecaps of Earth.

Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College (SMWC) recently joined I-Light, Indiana's high-speed fiber optic network for higher education. Through the use of I-Light, Indiana colleges and universities can connect classrooms at distant locations with high-quality video-streaming; allow researchers to exchange large digital data files and access supercomputers and scientific data storage facilities at Indiana University and Purdue University; engage in multi-campus collaborative research projects; and enable the use of high-definition videoconferencing.

Saint Joseph's College of Indiana recently joined I-Light, Indiana's high-speed statewide fiber optic network for higher education. I-Light provides Indiana colleges and universities digital communications at least 20 times faster than a typical home Internet connection.

Not even an ocean could stand between them and success. The "ClusterMeisters," a team of students from the Indiana University School of Informatics and Technische Universität Dresden (TUD) were awarded first place in the SC08 Cluster Challenge, an international collegiate competition for leading-edge, energy-efficient high performance computing.

Indiana University, the National Science Foundation, the Pakistan Higher Education Commission, and the European Commission have partnered to extend the NSF-funded TransPAC2 network managed by IU to connect scientists and researchers in Pakistan to their counterparts in the global scientific community.

Indiana University has been awarded $336,000 to help launch a new experimental network research infrastructure that one day will lead to the future of the Internet. Part of the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Project, IU is among 29 academic and industrial research teams to receive subcontract awards totaling $12 million from BBN Technologies, an advanced technology solutions firm. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, GENI prototyping supports the development of a national-scale suite of infrastructure for experimental research in groundbreaking network science and engineering.

Indiana University has been awarded $336,000 to help launch a new experimental network research infrastructure that one day will lead to the future of the Internet. Part of the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) Project, IU is among 29 academic and industrial research teams to receive subcontract awards totaling $12 million to develop a national-scale suite of infrastructure for experimental research in groundbreaking network science and engineering.

Indiana University, a leader in international networking within the global research community, will host the Chinese-American Network Symposium Oct. 20-22 on its Indianapolis campus, bringing together more than 100 networking experts from the United States and China.

Environmental scientists studying the world's shrinking polar ice sheets will soon get a substantial boost in computing power thanks to IU's Polar Grid Project. Funded by a $1.96 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Indiana University and Polar Grid partners Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) and the NSF's Center for Remote Sensing of Ice Sheets (CReSIS), headquartered at the University of Kansas, are poised this week to deploy a collection of customized computational resources to Antarctica that will allow scientists -- both on site and remotely -- to more securely and efficiently process data during polar field expeditions.

Fifty of the nation's information technology (IT) leaders have convened on the IUPUI campus this week to draft a national strategy for coordinating the nation's most advanced IT resources to promote innovation, research productivity, and US global competitiveness. The meeting brings together leaders from two key national organizations - the Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing (CASC) and the EDUCAUSE Committee on Campus Cyberinfrastructure. The workshop will result in a report recommending steps universities can implement collaboratively to accelerate research.

Indiana University students, faculty and staff on the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses who wirelessly connect their laptops and handheld devices to the Internet will find greater coverage and ease of use once IU's new next-generation wireless hardware is installed. Users of handheld devices, such as iPhones, will be able to move seamlessly among wireless access points without losing their connection, just as cell phone users can travel between cellular towers without losing calls.

The University of Chicago and Indiana University announced today that use of the TeraGrid Knowledge Base, a 24/7 online user-driven support system for the TeraGrid, has passed two significant milestones. The TeraGrid Knowledge Base now includes more than 250 articles and during 2007 was accessed by U.S. researchers and information technologists more than 140,000 times. During December alone, the TeraGrid Knowledge Base was accessed nearly 20,000 times.

Indiana University technologists will inform some of the nation's top research scientists about advanced cyberinfrastructure at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) being held next month in Boston. IU is sponsoring a tutorial and workshop at the event titled "The TeraGrid: An essential tool for 21st century science" on Sunday, February 17, from 10:30-noon.

Indiana University and Zayo Bandwidth announced that they have reached consensus on previously reported concerns regarding the acquisition of Indiana Fiber Works. As a result, IU has withdrawn its request to the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission to suspend the acquisition of IFW to Zayo.

David E. Jent, associate vice president for networks at Indiana University, has been elected to serve on the Internet2 Advisory Council after its first election.

The Indiana Office of Technology and Indiana University have signed an agreement for IU to provide backup data center space and network connectivity to the state. The partnership takes advantage of IU's information technology staff and its IT infrastructure -- the I-Light high-speed network and the data center at IU Bloomington -- to provide critical redundancy and save money for the state. It also serves as a basis for further partnership and collaboration between the state and IU.

Microsoft Corp., along with the Research and Education Networking Information Sharing and Analysis Center (REN-ISAC), established in 2003 by Indiana University, announced a new alliance this week that will extend the reach of the Microsoft® Security Cooperation Program (SCP) to include higher education institutions in its mission to enhance security measures worldwide.

Massive quantities of data will soon begin flowing from the largest scientific instrument ever built into an international network of computer centers, including one operated jointly by the University of Chicago and Indiana University. The first phase of the Chicago-Indiana center, formally known as the MidWest Tier 2 Center, is now up and running, crunching test data in preparation for the real thing.